How to frame your face. Yellow Eyelet Blouse with neck framed by bib necklace. Outfit 427

 


Angela Lansbury wearing yellow eyelet blouse with black necklace. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

I discovered this by chance. Wearing a dark long sleeved tee shirt or clinging vest over a short sleeved eyelet garment has three good results.  The original purpose was to keep warm on a day when I felt cold, possibly due to not enough sleep. 

The surprise benefits were that the sleeves form a contrast with the main body colour of the top. Then the lower neck is infilled which covers cleavage. You might want to show cleavage. 


Angela Lansbury wearing a yellow eyelet blouse over a black background with a bib necklace. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

After I took this photo I went to describe it. What was it called? I found a handy guide to what to call all the necklace styles. More in the next post.

Your Internet Appearance
For zoom, for internet group meetings when you are spending a long time listening rather than talking, or typing into a chat box, you will want to be sitting down, with your camera on for group photos and to provide an audience response of smiles and nods as well as friendly support for the speaker showing that you are there and listening not doing other work, talking to a second meeting on another screen or wandering off.

Some meeting photographers like candid shots rather than posed shots. This means you need your camera on, and a pretty effect, and to be noticeable, all through the meeting.

The Yellow Eyelet Top Fast Facts
Size 16
Instead of a scratchy and removable label, it has printing on the inside neck area. Good for the consumer. A heart contains the number 16,  for size 16. Heart. Cute. Makes me smile.

Next to the heart is the word in large LOVE. Slightly smaller bellow is the word Cotton. Love cotton.

The pale brown print is tastefully inconspicuous. A pale colour is probably less likely to show through and colour run. However, it may fade and is already hard to read.

Below that is really tiny print so I had to get a magnifying glass. Still to small to read. Stand by a window. Still struggling.  Call on somebody else, who still struggled to read it, The words looked like hand wash machine washable cotton.

Fabric Facts
The fabric has five set of eyelets, with tight, non-fraying edges which makes it machine washable. the embroidered part around the neck is on very fine cotton, opaque, very closely woven, thinner than the main fabric which is softer and stretches in both directions.

Creased Cotton
Being cotton, it creases easily. I don't iron. I hang dry clothes and pull them into shape. 

I am buying new clothes for my next holiday, a Writers' Summer School at Swanwick. This easily creased garment is not suitable for my holiday at a Writers' Conference where we are busy from 8.30 am to midnight. I shall have homework to do in breaks - which is time for socialising.

Elastic Options
The bottom frill is joined on with horizontal elastic. So you can wear the elastic at waist level and hang the top over J shape, shorter but bulkier on the belly. (I prefer the more refined words stomach or the jolly word tummy but belly was irresistably alliterative.)

Alternatively, pull it down across the hips. 

Buying Bundles
I bought the yellow eyelet top on Ebay as part of a bundle of three tops. A bundle is a group of items from the same seller. Not the same as a matching set which has the same colours and fabrics. 

Belt information in next post.

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